Shadow Hand

- Intent: To create a Sith forged alchemical alloy used for blast doors, hull plating, and reinforcement structures across Kainate vessels and installations, superior to conventional Turadium utilizing adaptive resilience and dark resonance.
- Image Source:
- Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Canon Link: N/A
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- Manufacturer:
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Woundforged Alloy
- Modularity: Yes - Limited (Can be layered, alloyed, or rune-tempered depending on intended use, ex. hatch plating, hull bracing, cell confinement, etc.)
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Alchemized Sarrassian Iron (Base Matrix)
- Bloodsteel Filament Inlays (Energy Dispersal Network)
- Sacrificial Vitae Temper Compound (Runic Binding)
- Pain-Crystal Fragments (Molecular Memory Anchors)
- Layered Ultrachrome and Pain-Carbon Lattice Reinforcement (Structural Support)

- Adaptive Density Response: When subjected to kinetic or thermal stress, the alloy's internal lattice tightens at the molecular level, momentarily increasing its density and hardness. This allows Woundforged Alloy to resist repeated impacts and plasma exposure far beyond standard turadium composites.
- Pain Resonance Memory: The alloy "remembers" each assault. Energy from strikes, cuts, or detonations is absorbed into the lattice as residual tension, subtly altering its structure so that similar attacks meet increased resistance. Over time, every wound endured strengthens it against the same form of damage.
- Energy Diffusion Layer: Networks of Bloodsteel filaments within the alloy redirect and disperse plasma or energy-based impacts laterally through the material. This dramatically slows lightsaber cutting, torch breaching, or sustained plasma erosion, buying critical time under siege conditions.
- Vocal Resonance Feedback: When struck, the alloy emits a deep harmonic vibration, a guttural, almost living growl. In Kainate citadels and starships, this sound is intentionally amplified through architectural acoustics, serving as both an alarm and a psychological weapon to unnerve intruders.
- Runic Symbiosis: The alloy's alchemical composition allows Sith runes, containment sigils, and dread-wards to bind directly into its structure. When inscribed, these markings are naturally amplified, reinforcing prison cells, vault doors, and structural seals that rely on sustained dark-side resonance.

- Self-Reinforcing Resilience: Grows momentarily harder and denser when exposed to impact or focused energy, outperforming Turadium in prolonged assault endurance.
- Thermal Deflection: Exceptional at dispersing plasma heat laterally; lightsabers, ion cutters, or thermal weaponry require significantly longer breach times.
- Kinetic Resistance: Absorbs and disperses high kinetic energy (explosions, concussive impacts) with minimal deformation.
- Force Synergy: Functions as a natural amplifier for Sith containment runes and prison wards.
- Psychological Dread: Emits audible hums and harmonic echoes when stressed, unnerving intruders and test subjects alike.

- Force Nullification: While under Force Nullification, the alloy loses its adaptive and reactive qualities. It remains a highly durable alloy in its base form superior to Turadium, without its self-reinforcing effects.
- Density: Due to its nature the alloy is denser than Turadium, it increases the structural load placed on installations, vessels, etc when used.
- Density: Despite its self reinforcing qualities, repeated, swift concentrated assaults in the same area can overwhelm the adaptive nature of the alloy, allowing micro fissures to form before it's fully adapted. In time this can weaken it.

Forged within the dark foundries of Malsheem, Woundforged Alloy embodies the Sith philosophy of strength through pain given physical form. Its creation is less an industrial process than an act of ritual, metal heated not merely by plasma, but by agony, then quenched in vitae drawn from the condemned. The latest in developments orchestrated by the Shadow Hand Darth Prazutis, worked by his own hand until perfection was achieved.
Each plate is wound into being, hammered by fleshbound servitors under the gaze of alchemical overseers who feed the molten mass the memory of suffering, anchoring it with runes that teach the alloy to learn from trauma. The result is a material that reacts to injury as though alive, tightening its lattice when struck and diffusing energy like a living organism exhaling through pain. Its surface, once smooth and black, gradually develops faint vein-like scars that glow dull crimson when stressed, the alloy's "pain memory" made visible.
When installed within Kainate vessels, detention wings, or the walls of Sith citadels, Woundforged Alloy emits a deep, resonant hum, a heartbeat of defiance echoing through the structure itself. The longer it endures assault, the stronger it becomes, embodying the same unrelenting doctrine that governs its maker: suffering refines, and what survives pain becomes unbreakable.
Even among the Sith, Woundforged Alloy is a paradox, a metal that requires agony to achieve perfection, a creation that must be wounded to become whole. To the Kainate, it is not merely material, it is doctrine, will, and endurance cast in iron. Final tests were performed with many competing materials especially Turadium, and Woundforged Alloy outperformed it in every way to a staggering degree.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a Sith forged alchemical alloy used for blast doors, hull plating, and reinforcement structures across Kainate vessels and installations, superior to conventional Turadium utilizing adaptive resilience and dark resonance.
Canon Link:
N/A
Permissions:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
N/A
Technical Information
Affiliation:
The Kainate
Model:
Woundforged Alloy
Modular:
Yes
Material:
Alchemized Sarrassian Iron (Base Matrix) Bloodsteel Filament Inlays (Energy Dispersal Network) Sacrificial Vitae Temper Compound (Runic Binding) Pain-Crystal Fragments (Molecular Memory Anchors) Layered Ultrachrome and Pain-Carbon Lattice Reinforcement (Structural Support)